1st Edition
Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century Image, Sound, Touch
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and... Read more
1: Introduction; Section 1: Image; 2: The Wordsworths' Daffodils; 3: “So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight”; 4: A Literature of its Own; 5: Kaleidoscopic Vision in Late Victorian Bohemia; Section 2: Sound; 6: A Modern Poetry of Sensation; 7: Visible Sound and Auditory Scenes; 8: Piano, Telegraph, Typewriter; Section 3: Touch; 9: Tactile Modernity; 10: Teleny, the Secret Touch, and the Media Geography of the Clandestine Book Trade (1880–1900); 11: Touching at a Distance; 12: Frankenstein Revisited
Biography
Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley are members of the English Department and Graduate Print Culture Program at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
'A lively and wide-ranging collection that shows the striking variety of recent work in Victorian media studies.' Leah Price, Harvard University, USA 'A must for libraries developing collections in 19th-century literature and/or media studies...Recommended.' Choice '... it is undoubtedly the broad engagement with popular and avant-garde culture, and the inclusion of technologies of production, destruction, replication, communication, transmission and reception that make the book so useful as a resource for researchers approaching the topic from a range of literary and cultural contexts, as well as a starting point for further study in the field. Though wide-ranging, the readings are never lacking in interest, managing to convey insightful, sophisticated and convincing arguments in accessible prose.' British Society for Literature and Science
